I never put two and two together either, and had one of those radios in my first car. I always figured it was radial button because they were round or something. My geek knowledge base is that much richer now. I'd mod you up but I just replied (and you likely have a lifetime supply of karma).
The big features I've heard of for Longhorn are a database file system and a 3d desktop. Sun's looking glass team (it might only be one guy still) is trying to do a 3d desktop system, as well. I believe they have some internal code running (again it might only be on the aforementioned guy's laptop). I don't know if there are other developments, there were a few projects on sourceforge to accomplish 3d windowing systems, but I have not been looking for those in a while.
I think i learned more about 17th century politics and trading from that manual than I did from all my school up to college. Oh and Covert Action is looking pretty precient now, too.
I recall many a game spent swearing at my little seadogs who would mutiny all the time after I spent a bit too long on the spanish main and had to sail against the winds back to Jamaica. Did anyone else get a british or french town up to Wealthy just from all the looting done? Or wipe out the dutch? Game was just too much fun. I think my best retirement was king's advisor or governer.
The tech industry has ton's of power, money, and influence. They tried to staty out of politics for a long time (when everything was roses) and now they just spend it in places like promoting the MS anti-trust trial or H1-B visas, not on fighting the media companies. If push came to shove on music filesharing, keep in mind that the telecom companies who benefit from filesharing make more money (profits) than the music companies get in revenue, they'll just become the new music companies who bundle music services in with your ISP bill.
Because PCs are very versatile, your DVD player is disigned to do a total of perhaps three things (and you do have to install "software" each time you put in a disc happily it is very standardized). Your PC can do many many more, and the things you want to do out of the box, may well be very different from the things I want mine to do out of the box. One of us might want to download music the other rips it. One of us might play FPS, the other wants to play bejeweled and browse slashdot. One of us might work in word processors, the other spreadsheets, and another guy might only want to use a text editor and compier. Each of these tasks requires a special addition to our generic tool, and we might not care about being able to do the things that the other tools allow us to potentially do. That's why you have to install software on your computer, the alternative is buying a task specific computer (a developer workstation, gamer's box, office machine, network terminal, but each of these would require that the seller know all the software you plan to use for the life of the computer.
Is this not high end enough for you? Kidding aside, the biggest reason more workstations are sold with Linux is that there aren't enough professional applications (design stuff like ProE, The pSPICE family (at least Cadence and Synopsys, etc) haven't all been ported to linux yet. Most made it to Windows a few years back. Keep in mind that it took some time for the software to make it over to the Windows world, and that was for a 50%-75% cost savings. Moving from Windows to Linux doesn't bring the same one time cost savings, and workstation buyers aren't afraid to spend a signficant amount of cash if it means that their employees will be more productive by not retraining on new application software if a different version exists.
In short, Apple executes retail much better than Gateway. Several major resons are Apple's bigger hardware margins give them more money to toss around (hiring better employees, getting better store locations, etc) without taking a loss. Gateway has roughly the same gross margins as Dell (mid to high teens). Gross margins are the amount that is left after you pay for your manufacturing inputs, in PCs that is components and assembly. Apple has about 10% higher gross margins (mid 20% range). This means that an Apple store that boost sales by $100 million/yr but requires $16 million/yr is quite profitable, but a Gateway store that adds $100 million in sales and costs $12 million is not. So you can see that even a much more efficient store owned Gateway could be a terrible idea, but is a great idea for Apple.
Railroad Tycoon 2, it's got a ton of history about railroad development. There are a bunch of tycoon games in this one's footsteps, some are better than others.
Alpha Centari, is a different take on civ, there is some battle, (not bloody as I recal but there is some fighting).
If you have an older group I'd suggest wall street raider, especially if they finish a unit on the stock market. Graphics are poor but the game is quite fun. There used to be an excellent risk like game with more updated country borders, the rest of the gameplay was very similar to risk, it was quite fun too.
It increases the profit for the first guy (who is competing against all the other traditional building crews) until a second guy gets the robot, then profit starts the slow slide off to consumer surplus. Also it would make the price of current homes decline as now there is a cheap version of houses, and just like automation in IT is slowly displacing expensive workers, automation in home building will replace expensive workers.
$1 now to your current customers vs. $0.06 per month per customer keep in mind that customers a year from now is likely to be more than customers today. Hum invest a dollar get $0.06 per month back (from numbers earlier in the post about 15% of subs have the package that will include Nicktoons). I wish I could get a 70+% return on my money.
One of my favorite stories from the St. Helens eruption (I moved to eastern washington a few years after it occured, it was pretty neat to dig down 3 inches and see this inch thick line in the soil) was the people who tried to wash the ash off their sidewalks and learned geology the hard way, (the stuff compresses a bunch when it gets wet.
I know very few geeks with good handwriting, my own hypothesis is that the part of the brain that attracts people to math and science is very different from the part that controls small motor skills. I've found that printing is an easy, if a bit slow, way to improve the readability of your handwriting. The second suggestion would be to practice, handwriting is a skill like any other, slow way down and practice the motions required to make all the letters, you might take a Japanese (writing focused class) as a way to stimulate those muscle/nerve groups since you will have to concentrate on learning the entirely new script. My handwriting improved back in HS when I took Japanese, it might work for you. It's returned to its usual form now though, as I've been on a keyboard for the better part of the last decade.
Back at apple headquarters, "Steve your commission for the sale of these workstations to Pixar is the use of your airplane for another year." Cue the sound of much cheering from the peanut gallery.
Iron's draw a ton of current (I know they used to draw about 1000W) and it seems a bit easier to bring in 5 irons than 5 1000 W microwaves. Ofcourse Iron's will only draw the current for a few minutes (till they get hot), so you might want a fan or some water to keep the temp below the turnoff point. It's probably easier to bring in an electrician who can tell you if the space supports your electrical needs.
As I understand it, and I'm certainly not a EE or chip designer, it's a matter of semiconductors can be driven "hot" which makes them work but shortens their life. Now Intel wants to run the voltage at 1.4 V to keep their heat dissipation at about 80 W. Imagine a P4 that has everything perfectly finished (if it were an engine it would be ported and polished). Now imagine one that all works but there are some thin gates, and doping wasn't quite as uniform. If you wanted it to run at 3 Ghz you might be able to if you crank the voltage up to 1.6 V and dissipate 110 W (note that these numbers are only guesses) Intel doesn't want to do that so they just mark it at 2.4 GHz.
The arbitrage, and reason for such excitement in overclocking, is that most of the time Intel's manufacturing is too good. It makes too many uniform pieces that qualify for 3 GHz. The company likes to sell a few processors at high prices at the cutting edge, most processors at a sweet spot (~$200), and the remander as budget processors. To meet the economic demand, they take over qualified processors and mark them (most of them are multiplier locked as well) at for lower speeds. Over clockers take the chance that they bought a "relabed" processor not a "binned" processor. The success of a large group of overclockers is an indication of how well the manufacturing process is at delivering things at good tolerances. If you recall the Barton launch over clocking was a much dicier prospect, or further back an old Cyrix chip, because the processors were more likely to not qualify at higher speeds.
Almost all manufactured goods are built to tolerances rather than exact specs. Go grab a precision instrument and check some. The tolerances allow for much lower cost, and are usually developed as a balance between cost reduction and usefulness. There is a whole branch of manufacturing statistics that has developed tools for deciding when a process is out of tolerance. (The stats aren't too tough the tools make it easy to check on the fly even if you have little or no stat's training).
I live in a rock building so broadcast was out of the picture, and I picked DSL over a cable bill. Haven't had a TV in almost three years. I catch plenty of DVDs and enjoy the occasional program at a friends house, I would see CSI occasionally last year (was at friends and it's their fav show), and I personally love Pinky and the Brain when I get the chance. I also see CNBC at work occasionally, and that's about it. I don't really miss TV, and think there are plenty of people who are choosing the internet over TV.
Yeah BMW films are just long commercials but their a bit more interesting and entertaining than the average commercial. I really enjoyed The Ticker, although short it was better than some films I've seen. Besides BMW found that their customers gave up on TV (and went online) quite a while ago.
You know the older I get the more I respect my folks. I was borderline gifted growing up, but my parents always kept me out of the gifted classes. I was offered college as a 7th grader, that's a head rush. I did skip kindergarten, but that was only because the school thought that I would be bored. I also was on the fast track (calc, AP science, AP english in High School. I am only now begining to see that a big reason for this was that I learned to interact with my peers who weren't as sharp as me. I was in soccer, cub scouts, and later did football, and band. While interactions were always (and still are) pretty difficult I can't imagine how tough they would be if I had only been exposed to other gifted children.
Interestingly, there was an excellent column (Column A of the B section if you get the paper version) about how most monopolies give back research to the World (IBM and Bell Labs) and how little MS is currently doing to improve basic research.
I was utterly amazed the first time I saw nasty pond water go through about a jar's worth of sand and come out clear on the other side. I realize there was probably plently of nasty stuff remaining, but the large visible polutants were all gone. Of course I was also a third grader at the time.
Rough numbers 240 kg is about 85 gallons of gas. Assumptions were 46.8 lb/cu ft (first density number I found). Asuming about 13 gallon tanks (thats about what my honda holds thats about 6 fillups or 3 months of normal use for me (no major road trips).
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I think they think they never meant to buy the product, but missed the moving link to the free download. It's there, but you have to know it's there to notice it. The real player download page promenently display's the premium product and has a text link to the free download. It is not quite white text on a white background, but I would not put it past them.
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I never put two and two together either, and had one of those radios in my first car. I always figured it was radial button because they were round or something. My geek knowledge base is that much richer now. I'd mod you up but I just replied (and you likely have a lifetime supply of karma).
The big features I've heard of for Longhorn are a database file system and a 3d desktop. Sun's looking glass team (it might only be one guy still) is trying to do a 3d desktop system, as well. I believe they have some internal code running (again it might only be on the aforementioned guy's laptop). I don't know if there are other developments, there were a few projects on sourceforge to accomplish 3d windowing systems, but I have not been looking for those in a while.
Those trixy, trixy spammers trying to steal our inboxes, we'll show them my preciouss... [token ring].
I think i learned more about 17th century politics and trading from that manual than I did from all my school up to college. Oh and Covert Action is looking pretty precient now, too.
I recall many a game spent swearing at my little seadogs who would mutiny all the time after I spent a bit too long on the spanish main and had to sail against the winds back to Jamaica. Did anyone else get a british or french town up to Wealthy just from all the looting done? Or wipe out the dutch? Game was just too much fun. I think my best retirement was king's advisor or governer.
The tech industry has ton's of power, money, and influence. They tried to staty out of politics for a long time (when everything was roses) and now they just spend it in places like promoting the MS anti-trust trial or H1-B visas, not on fighting the media companies. If push came to shove on music filesharing, keep in mind that the telecom companies who benefit from filesharing make more money (profits) than the music companies get in revenue, they'll just become the new music companies who bundle music services in with your ISP bill.
Because PCs are very versatile, your DVD player is disigned to do a total of perhaps three things (and you do have to install "software" each time you put in a disc happily it is very standardized). Your PC can do many many more, and the things you want to do out of the box, may well be very different from the things I want mine to do out of the box. One of us might want to download music the other rips it. One of us might play FPS, the other wants to play bejeweled and browse slashdot. One of us might work in word processors, the other spreadsheets, and another guy might only want to use a text editor and compier. Each of these tasks requires a special addition to our generic tool, and we might not care about being able to do the things that the other tools allow us to potentially do. That's why you have to install software on your computer, the alternative is buying a task specific computer (a developer workstation, gamer's box, office machine, network terminal, but each of these would require that the seller know all the software you plan to use for the life of the computer.
Is this not high end enough for you? Kidding aside, the biggest reason more workstations are sold with Linux is that there aren't enough professional applications (design stuff like ProE, The pSPICE family (at least Cadence and Synopsys, etc) haven't all been ported to linux yet. Most made it to Windows a few years back. Keep in mind that it took some time for the software to make it over to the Windows world, and that was for a 50%-75% cost savings. Moving from Windows to Linux doesn't bring the same one time cost savings, and workstation buyers aren't afraid to spend a signficant amount of cash if it means that their employees will be more productive by not retraining on new application software if a different version exists.
In short, Apple executes retail much better than Gateway. Several major resons are Apple's bigger hardware margins give them more money to toss around (hiring better employees, getting better store locations, etc) without taking a loss. Gateway has roughly the same gross margins as Dell (mid to high teens). Gross margins are the amount that is left after you pay for your manufacturing inputs, in PCs that is components and assembly. Apple has about 10% higher gross margins (mid 20% range). This means that an Apple store that boost sales by $100 million/yr but requires $16 million/yr is quite profitable, but a Gateway store that adds $100 million in sales and costs $12 million is not. So you can see that even a much more efficient store owned Gateway could be a terrible idea, but is a great idea for Apple.
Railroad Tycoon 2, it's got a ton of history about railroad development. There are a bunch of tycoon games in this one's footsteps, some are better than others.
Alpha Centari, is a different take on civ, there is some battle, (not bloody as I recal but there is some fighting).
If you have an older group I'd suggest wall street raider, especially if they finish a unit on the stock market. Graphics are poor but the game is quite fun. There used to be an excellent risk like game with more updated country borders, the rest of the gameplay was very similar to risk, it was quite fun too.
It increases the profit for the first guy (who is competing against all the other traditional building crews) until a second guy gets the robot, then profit starts the slow slide off to consumer surplus. Also it would make the price of current homes decline as now there is a cheap version of houses, and just like automation in IT is slowly displacing expensive workers, automation in home building will replace expensive workers.
$1 now to your current customers vs. $0.06 per month per customer keep in mind that customers a year from now is likely to be more than customers today. Hum invest a dollar get $0.06 per month back (from numbers earlier in the post about 15% of subs have the package that will include Nicktoons). I wish I could get a 70+% return on my money.
One of my favorite stories from the St. Helens eruption (I moved to eastern washington a few years after it occured, it was pretty neat to dig down 3 inches and see this inch thick line in the soil) was the people who tried to wash the ash off their sidewalks and learned geology the hard way, (the stuff compresses a bunch when it gets wet.
I know very few geeks with good handwriting, my own hypothesis is that the part of the brain that attracts people to math and science is very different from the part that controls small motor skills. I've found that printing is an easy, if a bit slow, way to improve the readability of your handwriting. The second suggestion would be to practice, handwriting is a skill like any other, slow way down and practice the motions required to make all the letters, you might take a Japanese (writing focused class) as a way to stimulate those muscle/nerve groups since you will have to concentrate on learning the entirely new script. My handwriting improved back in HS when I took Japanese, it might work for you. It's returned to its usual form now though, as I've been on a keyboard for the better part of the last decade.
I heard that he tossed a SUN monitor through a Window as an expression of that happiness.
Back at apple headquarters, "Steve your commission for the sale of these workstations to Pixar is the use of your airplane for another year."
Cue the sound of much cheering from the peanut gallery.
Iron's draw a ton of current (I know they used to draw about 1000W) and it seems a bit easier to bring in 5 irons than 5 1000 W microwaves. Ofcourse Iron's will only draw the current for a few minutes (till they get hot), so you might want a fan or some water to keep the temp below the turnoff point. It's probably easier to bring in an electrician who can tell you if the space supports your electrical needs.
As I understand it, and I'm certainly not a EE or chip designer, it's a matter of semiconductors can be driven "hot" which makes them work but shortens their life. Now Intel wants to run the voltage at 1.4 V to keep their heat dissipation at about 80 W. Imagine a P4 that has everything perfectly finished (if it were an engine it would be ported and polished). Now imagine one that all works but there are some thin gates, and doping wasn't quite as uniform. If you wanted it to run at 3 Ghz you might be able to if you crank the voltage up to 1.6 V and dissipate 110 W (note that these numbers are only guesses) Intel doesn't want to do that so they just mark it at 2.4 GHz.
The arbitrage, and reason for such excitement in overclocking, is that most of the time Intel's manufacturing is too good. It makes too many uniform pieces that qualify for 3 GHz. The company likes to sell a few processors at high prices at the cutting edge, most processors at a sweet spot (~$200), and the remander as budget processors. To meet the economic demand, they take over qualified processors and mark them (most of them are multiplier locked as well) at for lower speeds. Over clockers take the chance that they bought a "relabed" processor not a "binned" processor. The success of a large group of overclockers is an indication of how well the manufacturing process is at delivering things at good tolerances. If you recall the Barton launch over clocking was a much dicier prospect, or further back an old Cyrix chip, because the processors were more likely to not qualify at higher speeds.
Almost all manufactured goods are built to tolerances rather than exact specs. Go grab a precision instrument and check some. The tolerances allow for much lower cost, and are usually developed as a balance between cost reduction and usefulness. There is a whole branch of manufacturing statistics that has developed tools for deciding when a process is out of tolerance. (The stats aren't too tough the tools make it easy to check on the fly even if you have little or no stat's training).
I live in a rock building so broadcast was out of the picture, and I picked DSL over a cable bill. Haven't had a TV in almost three years. I catch plenty of DVDs and enjoy the occasional program at a friends house, I would see CSI occasionally last year (was at friends and it's their fav show), and I personally love Pinky and the Brain when I get the chance. I also see CNBC at work occasionally, and that's about it. I don't really miss TV, and think there are plenty of people who are choosing the internet over TV.
Yeah BMW films are just long commercials but their a bit more interesting and entertaining than the average commercial. I really enjoyed The Ticker, although short it was better than some films I've seen. Besides BMW found that their customers gave up on TV (and went online) quite a while ago.
You know the older I get the more I respect my folks. I was borderline gifted growing up, but my parents always kept me out of the gifted classes. I was offered college as a 7th grader, that's a head rush. I did skip kindergarten, but that was only because the school thought that I would be bored. I also was on the fast track (calc, AP science, AP english in High School. I am only now begining to see that a big reason for this was that I learned to interact with my peers who weren't as sharp as me. I was in soccer, cub scouts, and later did football, and band. While interactions were always (and still are) pretty difficult I can't imagine how tough they would be if I had only been exposed to other gifted children.
Interestingly, there was an excellent column (Column A of the B section if you get the paper version) about how most monopolies give back research to the World (IBM and Bell Labs) and how little MS is currently doing to improve basic research.
I was utterly amazed the first time I saw nasty pond water go through about a jar's worth of sand and come out clear on the other side. I realize there was probably plently of nasty stuff remaining, but the large visible polutants were all gone. Of course I was also a third grader at the time.
Rough numbers 240 kg is about 85 gallons of gas. Assumptions were 46.8 lb/cu ft (first density number I found). Asuming about 13 gallon tanks (thats about what my honda holds thats about 6 fillups or 3 months of normal use for me (no major road trips).
I think they think they never meant to buy the product, but missed the moving link to the free download. It's there, but you have to know it's there to notice it. The real player download page promenently display's the premium product and has a text link to the free download. It is not quite white text on a white background, but I would not put it past them.